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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Arm610 in an A3000/etc
This is very cool, Ian! Do you plan to look at patching RISC OS to turn on the cache? In the past I had a look at what would be involved, as ARM610 cards seem to be readily available whereas ARM3s are...
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trickysoft (new bbc micro games) • Re: Rip Cord (originally by Exidy) for the...
They all looked a bit naff from the screen shots in mame, but the gameplay doesn't look terrible Statistics: Posted by tricky — Wed May 28, 2025 5:08 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Disassembly/reassembly of VIEW?
(Turns out that calling your program 'view' makes it very hard to do web searches for. Someone should have told them.)Surely not just outside of the Acorn world, but even from Acorn there is Econet's...
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: ARM1 second processor Brazil kernel source
Who, I wonder, was Mike?Mike's ARM 2Proc.pngStatistics: Posted by acheton1984 — Wed May 28, 2025 6:01 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S25 -...
Starting to get the hang of this again now.Statistics: Posted by fwibbler — Wed May 28, 2025 6:12 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: BeebWiki offline for maintainance
Due to the state controls and monitoring, it's unlikely to be a Chinese attack unless government approvedIt's indesciminate and brain-dead-stupid web scraping almost certainly for AI model training,...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Iyonix RAM
The little information available online suggests that Iyonix can take up to 1Gb RAM, either DDR-200 or DDR-266.It also suggests that this can be Registered or Unregistered, ECC or non-ECC (ECC being a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC B starting in mode 6
I've had this and the 74LS251 was bad.Statistics: Posted by maniacminer — Wed May 28, 2025 7:20 pm
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Grundy newbrain VFD...
Keep in mind that most low cost multimeters only have AC ranges suitable for mains frequency AC or thereabouts (50 to 60Hz).It's likely the converter/inverter is running at a much higher Typically at...
View Articlescanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: BBC CLP Update August 1982
Thanks for uploading this! Interesting to see that the "16-bit microprocessor" option, presumably the 32016 (which is architecturally a 32-bit processor), is advertised with 128K of RAM, but even...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 8271 Scan commands
If you're talking about the program ROM in the 8271, I should perhaps point out that the 8273 application does actually use a few of the unknown opcodes in the ISA.Is there a disassembly for it? Who...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Atom GoSDC video
Awesome!!Nice catch with the 3.33 MHz Statistics: Posted by janrinze — Thu May 29, 2025 4:25 pm
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Disc Image Manager
So, Disc Image Manager, when dealing with ZIP files, extracts the extra information from the central library at the end (the code deals with reading, adding and removing entries here). This central...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Risc PC to monitor
Hi folks, I would appreciate your advice. I have a Risc PC, and a monitor with three input ports: HDMI, DP, and RGB. What is the best way of connecting?Thanks, MartinStatistics: Posted by MJY — Thu...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Reccomendations for Archimedes to Run C++
I have been haunting fleabay for a few months now collating the various Archimedes specifications and prices. I can see that the Archimedes has evolved over the years from A300 to A3000 to A4000. BUt...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Risc PC to monitor
RiscPC software _should_ be using 31+ kHz modes as standard.RiscPC can still be set to monitortype to 0 though. There's a difference about what RiscPC should/does do when configured/detecting a 'VGA'...
View Articlethe complete BBC games archive • Re: Play and download counts added to the...
I've just added a small but interesting feature to the Complete BBC Micro Games Archive at bbcmicro.co.uk....Has anyone else noticed that these per-game counts drop down significantly every once in a...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Reccomendations for Archimedes to Run C++
I wrote a buyer's guide a while ago that should answer some questions - https://arcwiki.org.uk/index.php/Buyer%27s_GuideStatistics: Posted by SarahWalker — Fri May 30, 2025 6:50 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S25 -...
Sometime I find the first couple of levels as tough to get through as the later ones, but I think I did well today.Statistics: Posted by fwibbler — Fri May 30, 2025 7:30 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Dead RiscPC #4 - resistors in VIDC20 control...
And... if you promise not to laugh/cry too much at my soldering, here is the reconstructed area around IOMD. The corrosion was confined to this area and had totally taken out all the SMD resistors and...
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